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Adair's New Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 8
a city of Alabama, in Houston co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Atlantic Coast Line, the Central of Georgia, and other railroads. Its industries include cotton compre es and manufactures of fertilizers, cottonseed oil and lumber. Pop. 1920, 10,034. (MRS. ROGER N. BALDWIN) (1879), an American reformer, 6. at Bayonne, N.J., daughter of Samuel W. and Char educated at Smith College and at New York University. After studying law at the latter institution she was admitted to the bar in 1903 and was engaged in the general practice of law in New York for four years, but gave up law for welfare work. She was secretary of the Children’s Court Committee of the Ru ell Sage Foundation and was also a member of the Prison Reform Commi ion of New York voluntarily spending a week in prison to investigate conditions and make a report. In 1915 she went abroad and until 1919 traveled extensively throughout Europe and contributed articles on Warring Countries of Europe to American and English newspapers. She was the author of: Society’s Misfits, 1916; Short Rations, an American Woman in Germany, 1917, and Behind the Battle Line, 1919. She married Roger N. Baldwin in 1919.
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